While those with money are given the time to deal with the pain of loss—a trauma that has been observed and recorded since as long as people could record—the poor are expected to mourn with their teeth bared, fending off vultures with hearts haemorrhaging.

when I got to LA it was literally on fire and everything felt really purposeful. I’m not entirely sure what happened, I got into the habit of drinking a lot but I wasn’t sure I was having fun. I couldn’t stop staring at myself and going on dates…

In honour of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s seminal Gothic horror tale Frankenstein, we explore the hybrid and monstrous nature of digital media with Frankenletter—five days of Frankenstein-themed writing.

Voiceworks is largely produced and edited on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. As a national publication, we pay our respects to the traditional custodians of all the lands from which our stories and artwork were sourced and acknowledge that this has always been and will always be Aboriginal land.